I love Christmas time. I love getting to take the time and recount the birth of our Savior. I love hearing the story of how God humbled Himself as a man, and came and lived life as a human. I get goosebumps thinking about what it would have been like to be a goat staring into the manger that night, witnessing the birth of the King of Kings, Emmanuel, God with us.
I love getting to share the story of Christmas with our Kids' Club kids. In our 2 years of loving them, this is the second time we have come to the birth of Christ in our lessons. We have been able to arrange the lessons so Jesus comes right around Christmas time each year. We use the Jesus Storybook Bible as our curriculum, and the kids hear all trimester about how God is going to send His Rescuer to bring His people back to Him. The kids have figured out his name is Jesus.
The last Tuesday of the winter trimester we watch a video of our story about the birth of Christ. The story tells of how God could have sent His rescuer in so many ways. He could have made the mountains bow down, seas roar, and trees to clap their hands. But, He didn't choose that way. He choose to send Jesus as a baby, a totally human, fully God, baby.
One our most inquisitive kids asked after watching the video why Jesus needed that lady, Mary. My young friend seemed to have a hard time imagining a God so humble, who flung the planets into space, was coming to earth as a baby. As we took a second to chat we related it to the babies we knew in our community, and how if it weren't for their moms they wouldn't be alive. We had the chance to talk about how to be a man, Jesus had to start out as a baby.
While they are young now, the Kids' Club kids are listening and learning. They are beginning to understand how lessons from the Bible stories apply to their lives. My hope for my Kids' Club friends is they grow into young men and young women who love Jesus, and allow Him to guide them through life.
If you have a few seconds watch the video we watch. It's one of my favorites
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I love that story. I love this post so much I linked to it on my blog. I have a whole 9 readers, so I'm sure you'll get tons of traffic, but it was just the perfect post for my evening and I had to include it.
So blessed that you are in my life :) Even if your year of teaching was awful, I'm glad God used it to draw us close to one another! Glad to have you around, friend!
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